Tutorial Talks

Chair: Prof. R. J. Hicken, University of Exeter

Time

Speaker

Title of the talk

9.00 am - 9.45 am

Prof. S. Ogale,  National Chemical Laboratory and IISER, Pune

Science of thin film growth

9.45 am - 10.30 am

Dr. S. M. Yusuf,  Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai

Use of neutron scattering in condensed matter sciences

10.30 am - 11.15 am  

Dr. J.Yakhmi,  Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai

Molecular Materials

11.15 am - 12.30 am

Dr. A. K. Bannerjee,  UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore

Experiments at high magnetic field and at low temperatures

12.30 pm - 1.45 pm

Lunch

1.45 pm

Inauguration

2.00 pm - 3.00 pm

Prof. C N R Rao, JNCASR, Bangalore,  India

Key Note Address

Technical Sessions

Session - 1

Graphene

Chair: Prof. S. M. Shivaprasad, JNCASR

3.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Prof. A. K. Sood, IISc, Bangalore, India

Physics Issues in Graphene Transistor

3.30 pm - 4.00 pm

Dr. A. Ghosh, IISC, Bangalore, India

Low-frequency noise in graphine : Implication to device and Physics

4.00 pm - 4.30 pm

Tea

Session - 2

Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots

Chair: Dr. P. Singh Deo, SNBNCBS

4.30 pm - 5.00 pm

Prof. D. E. Logan,  University of Oxford,
UK

Electronic transport in carbon nanotube quantum dots

5.00 pm - 5.30 pm

Prof. A. Mookerjee, SNBNCBS, Kolkata,
India

A Recursive approach to the study of transport in atomic wires

5.30 pm - 6.00 pm

Dr. M. Deshmukh, TIFR, Mumbai,
India

Tunable electromechanics and thermal transport in nanowires

 7:30 pm

Director's Dinner

January 17

Session - 3

Spintronics and Related Issues

Chair: Dr. P. K. Mukhopadhyay, SNBNCBS

9.00 am - 9.30 am

Prof. Y.Otani, ISSP, University of Tokyo and RIKEN-ASI, Japan

Spin current and related phenomena in nano-structures

9.30 am - 10.00 am

Prof. R. J. Hicken, University of Exeter, UK

Control of picosecond magnetization dynamics for spintronic applications

10.00 am - 10.30 am

Prof. B. Doudin, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, France

Magnetoresistance anisotropy in magnetic nanocontacts

 10.30 am - 11.00 am

Tea

11.00 am - 11.30 am

Dr. A. Barman, SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India

Spin dynamics at the nanoscale: excitation, detection and control.

11.30 am - 12.30 pm

Poster Session

12.30 pm - 2.00 pm

Lunch

Session - 4

Molecular Materials

Chair: Dr. S. K. Pal, SNBNCBS

2.00 pm - 2.30 pm

Prof. J. Zyss, CNRS, UMR, Institut d’Alembert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France.

Reviving molecular nonlinear optics at the nanoscale with applications to nanobiophotonics

2.30 pm - 3.00 pm

Prof. K. S. Naryan, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

Critical Issues in Polymer based Solar Cells

3.30 pm - 4.00 pm

Tea

4.00 pm - 4.30 pm

Prof. A. J. Pal, IACS, Kolkata, India

Organic/inorganic hybrid systems for photovoltaic device applications

4.30 pm - 5.00 pm

Dr. S. Pati,  JNCASR, Bangalore, India

DNA and Molecular Electronics

5.00 pm - 5.30 pm

Prof. M. K. Sanyal, SINP, Kolkata, India

TBA

6:00 pm

Start for River Cruise Dinner

January 18

Session - 5

Oxide Heterostrcuture/  Multiferroics

Chair: Dr. C. Narayana, JNCASR

9.00 am - 9.30 am

Dr.  Anand Bhattacharya,  Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Digital Synthesis: A pathway to new materials andnovel collective states

9.30 am - 10.00 am

Dr. P. Mahadevan, SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India

New candidates for orbital ordering - p band oxides.

10.00 am - 10.30 am

Tea

10.30 am - 11.00 am

Dr. K. Maiti, TIFR, Mumbai, India

Structural link to the magnetic transition

11.00 am - 11.30 am

Dr. U. Waghmare,  JNCASR, Bangalore, India

First-principles simulations of nano-structured thermoelectrics based on ScN:ZrN and ScN:HfN superlattices

11.30 am - 12.00 noon

Concluding Session

Vote of Thanks

12.00 noon - 2.00 pm

Conference ends with Lunch